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"I HAVE AN IRREPRESSIBLE DESIRE TO LIVE TILL I CAN BE ASSURED THAT THE WORLD IS A LITTLE BETTER FOR MY HAVING LIVED IN IT": FIRST EDITION OF TONY KUSHNER'S SCREENPLAY FOR LINCOLN
KUSHNER, Tony.
Lincoln: Screenplay by Tony Kushner.
Dreamworks II Distribution Co., LLC and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 2012.
First hardbound edition of Tony Kushner's screenplay for the monumental 2012 historical drama Lincoln, loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Quarto, original pictorial boards. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a…
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 139539
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"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves": First Edition of Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA,.
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
First British edition of The Dalai Lama's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147113
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“Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn": First Edition of Truman
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
First edition of the historian's first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket and illustration design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145614
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First Edition of Richard Nixon's Six Crises
NIXON, Richard.
Six Crises.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962.
First edition of Nixon's first book, a summary of how he was tested in his public life up to the time of losing the 1960 Presidential election. Octavo, original cloth. Facsimile signature of Nixon to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Photograph by Philippe Halsman. A sharp example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147255
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"STILL FIGHTING FOR POPULIST CAUSES": FIRST EDITION OF BERNIE SANDERS' OUR REVOLUTION
SANDERS, Bernie.
Our Revolution. A Future To Believe In.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 2016.
First edition of Bernie Sanders' account of his life and influences, featuring a detailed account of his campaign praised as "well worth reading… his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn." Octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Bernie Sanders in facsimile. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Storrings.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 130641
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"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall": First Edition of Speaking My Mind
REAGAN, Ronald .
Speaking My Mind.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
First edition of President Reagan's collection of speeches. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barry Littmann.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147034
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Limited First Edition of Joseph P. Lash's A World of Love; Signed by Him
LASH, Joseph P.
A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends 1943-1962.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984.
Signed limited first edition of this moving biography-in-letters, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt by Peter Fiore specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition, illustrated with black and white photographs and a genealogical table. Signed by Joseph Lash on the front flyleaf. In near fine condition with a small abrasion…
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146857
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Betty: A Glad Awakening; Signed by Betty Ford
FORD, Betty.
Betty: A Glad Awakening.
New York : Doubleday, 1987.
First edition of the first lady's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Betty Ford on a page bound in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Gatti.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 76338
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First Edition of Golda Meir's A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
MEIR, Golda; Edited by Marie Syrkin.
A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
First edition of this oral autobiography by the former prime minister of Israel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146605
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"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today": First Edition Of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Memoirs
GORBACHEV, Mikhail.
Memoirs.
New York: Doubleday, 1996.
First edition of Gorbachev's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs, Foreward by Martin McCauley. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket photograph by Eddie Adams.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145194
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Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip III and Peter Kunhardt's Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography
KUNHARDT JR, Philip B; Philip B. Kunhardt III; Peter W. Kunhardt; Foreword by David Herbert Donald; Contributing Writer Daniel Terris.
Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography.
New York: Gramercy Books, 1992.
First edition, early printing of this photographic biography of the sixteenth president of the United States of America. Quarto, original brown boards, illustrated throughout with over seven hundred photographs and daguerreotypes, prints, and political cartoons. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146572
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"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others": First Edition of Prisoner In The Garden
MANDELA, Nelson.
Prisoner In The Garden.
London: Viking, 2005.
First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela's archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 138566
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Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Bruce Catton's Twenty Days
KUNHARDT, Dorothy Meserve; Bruce Catton.
Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights that Followed – The Nation in Mourning, the Long Trip Home to Springfield.
Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1977.
Later edition of this incredibly detailed snapshot of American history based on eyewitness accounts. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout with over three hundred black and white drawings, paintings, and photographs from the photographic collection of Frederick Hill Meserve. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Brendan F. Mulvey.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146571